folks
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noun
1.
Usually, folks. ( used with a plural verb ) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
2.
Often, folks. ( used with a plural verb ) people of a specified class or group: country folk; poor folks.
3.
( used with a plural verb ) people as the carriers of culture, especially as representing the composite of social mores, customs, forms of behavior, etc., in a society: The folk are the bearers of oral tradition.
4.
folks, Informal.
a.
members of one's family; one's relatives: All his folks come from France.
b.
one's parents: Will your folks let you go?
5.
Archaic. a people or tribe.
adjective
6.
of or originating among the common people: folk beliefs; a folk hero.
7.
having unknown origins and reflecting the traditional forms of a society: folk culture; folk art.
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Folks
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8.
just folks, Informal. (of persons) simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, or open-hearted people: He enjoyed visiting his grandparents because they were just folks.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English folc; cognate with Old Saxon, Old Norse folk, Old High German folk (German Volk)
before 900; Middle English; Old English folc; cognate with Old Saxon, Old Norse folk, Old High German folk (German Volk)
Synonyms
4. kinfolk, kin, relations, people; clan, tribe.
4. kinfolk, kin, relations, people; clan, tribe.
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| —n , pl folk, folks | |
| 1. | (functioning as plural; often plural in form) people in general, esp those of a particular group or class: country folk |
| 2. | informal (functioning as plural; usually plural in form) members of a family |
| 3. | informal (functioning as singular) short for folk music |
| 4. | a people or tribe |
| 5. | (modifier) relating to, originating from, or traditional to the common people of a country: a folk song |
| [Old English folc; related to Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German folk] | |
| 'folkish | |
| —adj | |
| 'folkishness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
folk
O.E. folc "common people, men, tribe, multitude," from P.Gmc. *folkom (cf. O.Fris. folk, M.Du. volc, Ger. Volk "people"), from P.Gmc. *fulka-, perhaps originally "host of warriors;" cf. O.N. folk "people," also "army, detachment;" and Lith. pulkas "crowd," O.C.S. pluku "division of an army," both believed
to have been borrowed from P.Gmc. Some have attempted, without success, to link the word to Gk. plethos "multitude;" L. plebs "people, mob," populus "people" or vulgus. Superseded in most senses by people.
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
It tolls for thee, higher education, and it is being rung by those folks paying a lot of your bills.
Many folks see their hairdressers more often than they see their doctors.
Get some older folks to help find stories or images that will help give you an idea of what to put into your picture.
Or else one can transgress, and be shunned by folks who were much friendlier when you agreed with them.
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